How Does a Poem Mean?
10 best books like How Does a Poem Mean? (John Ciardi): The Lice, The Art of the Poetic Line, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama, Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, From the New World: Poems 1976-2012
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 0689101902 |
Merwin was born 30 September 1927, and died in March 2019. I first encountered his poetry in 2010, after seeing him in a documentary about the life of the Buddha. His even-tempered, self-deprecating way of puncturing the Deadly Seriousness of the other talking heads in the film was memorable; his poetic...
| Author | James Longenbach |
| ISBN | 1555974953 |
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393334163 |
"The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditates on her own process as she encourages writers to explore both their personal and political worlds,...
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0075536064 |
Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Revised edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536064
ISBN-13: 978-0075536062
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.3 x 8.2 inches
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| Author | Alfred Corn |
| ISBN | 1885266405 |
"The Poem's Heartbeat" is a progressive, step-by-step introduction to prosody--the art and science of metrical composition in poetry. This second edition includes a new appendix of sample scansions, and a comprehensive index of poets and poems cited.
"This intelligent, user-friendly book...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0198812981 |
This book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century..
| Author | Laurence Perrine |
| ISBN | 0155826107 |
Sound and Sense in a nutshell:
Poetry is deep and thought-provoking. Let me tell you exactly how and what you're supposed to think about it.
No, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Telling me what to think kills the process of allowing me to think for myself, and I feel like that defeats the...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0060540419 |
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language
A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
| Author | Czesław Miłosz |
| ISBN | 0060188677 |
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...
| Author | Jorie Graham |
| ISBN | 0062315404 |
An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.
The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war...
| Author | Alex Preminger |
| ISBN | 0691021236 |
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
| Author | Michael Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0375706046 |
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.
Schmidt...
| Author | Christian Wiman |
| ISBN | 1556592604 |
“Blazing high style” is how The New York Times describes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor who transformed Poetry, the country’s oldest literary magazine.Ambition and Survival is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading...
| Author | Stephen Burt |
| ISBN | 1555975216 |
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)
Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."
Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities,...
| Author | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| ISBN | 0198121075 |
The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million...
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes and oh, my friends---
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry came as a surprise to me. I had heard of her before but never read anything by her. I found her to appeal to something within me. I had just...
| Author | Charles MacLean |
| ISBN | 1844034011 |
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Whisky is widely considered the finest spirit in the world--and this is the definitive history of the "water of life." Written by the editor of Whisky magazine, and Scotland's leading writer on the subject, it's the perfect blend of anecdotes and pioneering research. Superb illustrations...
| Author | Lynn Hunt |
| ISBN | 0312439458 |
Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, The Making of the West: A Concise History captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics...
| Author | Franco Moretti |
| ISBN | 1844670260 |
Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new luster to a tired field, one that in some respects is among “the most backwards disciplines in the academy.”...
| Author | William H. Gass |
| ISBN | 0879232544 |
First, an admission. Gass’s first collection of essays is lightyears beyond my intellectual level. Switching between heavy philosophical investigations to poetical and opaque literary meditations (by way of book reviews), the essays here lack the same layman’s entrypoint as in later collections...
| Author | Douglas K. van Duyne |
| ISBN | 0131345559 |
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| Author | Jeffrey D. Wilhelm |
| ISBN | 0545052564 |
Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students’ understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their reading as well as their writing. Rich, original passages illuminate the intricacies of character,...
| Author | Andy Clarke |
| ISBN | 0321410971 |
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